How does Facebook structure their data for messages. I have heard they use Cassandra for inbox search, but is this the only technology they use?
How does Facebook structure their data for messages. I have heard they use Cassandra
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How does Facebook structure their data for messages. I have heard they use Cassandra for inbox search, but is this the only technology they use?
Here’s how the Facebook database schema might look like.
I doubt it actually looks like this, because such a normalized scheme wouldn’t be very scalable. Check out Data Management, Facebook-style.